Julien Robert

Work History

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  Motion Editor

  Wētā FX

  October 2021 - March 2024

  Worked on various projects :
  - "Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes" movie
  - "War Is Over" (Electro League won the Oscar & Annie for best animated short movie among others "Avatar : The Way Of Water" movie (multi awarded including Oscar for Best Visual Effects)
  awards)
  - "She-Hulk: Attorney at Law" TV serie 1st season
  - "Rebel Moon - Part Two: The Scargiver" movie
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  Animator

  Emissive

  May 2021 - October 2021

  Motion editing on "Eternelle Notre-Dame" VR experience.
  Cleaning, blending and looping of in-game animations. Rigging and props animation.
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  Senior Motion Editor

  Small by Mac Guff

  July 2020 - March 2021

  Paris

  3 months of work at all.
  Post-animation of motion capture on some sequences of the short interactive narrative VR "Minimum Mass".
  Rigging of character and props in Maya & Motion Builder.
  

• Senior Motion Editor

  Totem Production

  September 2020 - February 2021

  Rough body mocap data cleanup & post-animation for a dance game

• Motion Editor

  Le Fresnoy, studio des arts contemporain

  June 2020 - July 2020

  Post-animation of body motion capture datas recorded on a Neuron Axis system for an artistic project designed by FleuryFontaine duo for Panorama 22 festival

• 3D Animator

  Palladium Software

  April 2020 - May 2020

  On an unannounced VR 3D project, I was in charge of :
  - character animation (keyframe and mocap)
  - character rigging (based on a personal Auto Rig script)
  - consulting about character modeling
  
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  Mocap teacher

  New3dge

  January 2019 - January 2020

  Paris

  Short term contract (around 2 x 1 week per year) on a Vicon mocap stage and in classroom :
  - Supervision of recordings (facial & body) for 4 short movies
  - Teaching of Motion Builder, demonstration of the whole process.
  I also animate a similar workshop at "ESRA Paris" university since April 2016.

• Previs Artist

  Androids

  December 2019 - December 2019

  Paris, France

  Layout, staging, motion editing and keyframe animation for the previsualization of "THE ELDER SCROLLS ONLINE : Greymoor / The Dark Heart of Skyrim" launch cinematic.

• Senior Motion Editor

  mocaplab

  June 2019 - August 2019

  Aubervilliers, France

• Senior Motion Editor

  mocaplab

  September 2013 - October 2018

  Aubervilliers, France

  I work on several projects of different purpose (video game, animated serie...). Mainly, my duty is to reconstruct and retarget motion capture datas we recorded ourselves with our Vicon system. Sometimes I'm on stage to record actors' performances.
  I've also made a prototyped version of a 3D realtime app for deaf & hearing-impaired persons.
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  Director Assistant Tech Animation

  TeamTO

  April 2016 - March 2018

  Bourg-lès-Valence, France

  - Follow FX animation and report technical issues on Skylanders Academy (the 3 seasons).
  - Manage a little team of technical animators.
  - Anticipate rendering issues due to animation mainly and fix them.
  - Help animators on technical issues, provide to them some rigs and scripts to automate/simplify tasks.
  - Ease communication between Valence and Paris studios.
  - Preserve the link between each departments involved in the project.
  - Continuity man

• Animator

  The Digital Lounge

  October 2015 - December 2015

  I was in charge of the in-game characters animations on Kick Off Revival (PS4 & PS Vita game)
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  3D Animator

  DONTNOD Entertainment

  May 2015 - October 2015

  Paris, France

  I helped for character/props animation on the 4th and 5th episodes of Life Is Strange. It was a great human experience, Dontnod has a modern vision of team and project management based on confidence to its employees and promotion of positive spirit. This is one of the reasons making this game a success.
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  Body Animator

  Quantic Dream

  February 2013 - July 2013

  Paris, France

  Refinement and post-animation of body motion capture datas on "Beyond : Two Souls" PS3 videogame. Animation of props.
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  Senior Animator

  Eden Games

  August 2007 - June 2011

  Lyon, France

  Character Animator specialized in Optical Motion Capture (full pipe from shooting to final delivery of body animations). Few keyframing skills (post animations, fingers, props, stunts,...).
  I've worked on "Alone In The Dark chapter 5" for the 8 last months and the whole "Test Drive Unlimited 2".
  Softwares : Motion Builder, Maya, PhaseSpace suit, Diva, Photoshop
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  Senior Animator and Character Setup Designer

  ARTEFACTO

  October 2006 - May 2007

  Rennes, France

  I was in charge of all character animations on architectural and military projects and a pilot of a TV serie. I had to make a generic animations database which could be reused for any kind of realistic project.
  Keyframe and motion capture animation, rigging, post-FX and video editing.
  Softwares : Motion Builder, Maya, 3DSmax, After Effect, Premiere
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  Motion Capture Animator

  Attitude Studio

  April 2003 - May 2006

  Pantin, France

  Character Animator specialized in Optical Motion Capture on Renaissance, the first full “mocapped” 3D European feature, and the 26 X 26 minutes TV series Skyland, and many Video Games
  cinematics (Getting Up, Dead To Rights 2, Shadow Ops, ... ). From
  post-treatment of motion capture datas to final delivery of animations. Keyframing for post-animations, props, vehicles...
  In the early months, Beta-Tester on the renderfarm (software and hardware maintenance).
  Softwares : Motion Builder, Maya, Vicon suit

  
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  R&D Trainee

  Duboi

  July 2000 - July 2000

  Boulogne-Billancourt, France

  Internship for intranet development (CGI, MySQL, PERL, html).